Autres directions

Another one from the signs and symbols category.

Piccadilly Circus

A bus in London. While almost all photos I posted in the last months were very recent, this is a pretty old picture.

Crucifix

There are lots of them in Brittany and this will certainly not be the last one I'll show here.

Basement stairs

It seems my color period is about to end.  At least for now - you never know...

Spooky?

Speaking of spooky - here's one I took in my daughter's room when I was just looking for a reason to expose the last frame of a roll of Tri-X.

Entrance

A spooky corner here in Hamburg.  This photo was taken in January.

Chewing gum

So don't do that!

One way

One of the first photos taken back in Hamburg after the vacation.

A few stickers

By chance, I saw this one on Flickr and was reminded that I took a similar photo about a year later. And even with the same type of camera.

Merci

In France, I finally had the chance to see some nice cemeteries again.

In a nutshell

Here's a summary and probably all you need to know about this year's vacation. I still might post some other photos from there in the next days, though.

Coq gaulois

This is to give you a hint where I spent the last three weeks.

Smiley

"Oh no! Not another new camera!" Yeah, you're probably right. But it was the kind of offer you can't refuse - an Olympus OM-2n for about the same price I paid for the Holga. What would you have done?

Anyway, this is the last photo before the summer break. In case you'll get bored in the meantime, you might want to check out which of my pictures other people find "interesting" according to Flickr.

Grocery

An old one.

Helicopter...

...over Berlin.

Forest

More trees, although it doesn't look like a jungle this time. Taken at the A7.

Tracks

Another one showing the Elbe. From the second roll with the Holga, taken on Good Friday.

Square bike

So, yeah, I bought a new camera. I spent a whopping 17 Euros for a brand-new Holga. (Actually, I essentially got it for free, but that's another story.)

I somehow had the feeling that I needed something new to "revitalize" my photography and there certainly is a lot that's new (for me) about this camera - for example it's the first time I ever shot square pictures and it's the first time I ever had to deal with medium format film. And that doesn't even take into account all the quirks the Holga is famous for.

What bothers me a little bit is that analog "toy" cameras are kind of a fad in these digital days. I'd rather use something that's totally uncool. (But as a consolation to myself I note that even luminaries like Sylvia Plachy or Michael Ackerman use Holgas every now and then, so it's obviously possible to just use them as tools instead of making a fashion statement.)

Anyway, filling the first roll felt "liberating" in a certain way because almost everything was different from shooting with one of the Leicas.  I certainly won't use the Holga as my only camera in the future, but you will likely see more square photos in the next weeks.

Oh, and some things rarely change: The film was Tri-X as almost always.

The hole

By now, you can probably guess where this is.

Bus

And while we're talking about buses, here's one taken from a bus window in Brooklyn last year.